"The first pole for Toyota and, hopefully, that's one step in a lot of successful days as far as poles and wins and the whole thing," Blaney said. "I think we've been making some progress in getting some speed out of the cars; I think all the Toyota teams have."

The news wasn't all good for Toyota, though.

Brian Vickers, who drives for the new Red Bull Racing team and has Toyota's best race finish -- fifth last month at Charlotte -- had his qualifying lap disallowed when his car failed post-qualifying inspection. Officials said the car was too low on the left side.

That put the Chevrolet of Chad Chaffin in the field and left Toyota with just three of its seven cars in the 43-car lineup. The other two were Jeremy Mayfield, driving the second Davis entry, and Michael Waltrip Racing rookie David Reutimann.

Kurt Busch wound up second at 129.182. Reed Sorenson was third at 128.589.